Langston Hughes
Poet, Novelist
"I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe."
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Toes
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Molly Harper
Author
"A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And if there was one thing I was familiar with it was pleasing...There's no way to finish that sentence without embarrassing myself."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks."
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his."
Emile Zola
Novelist
"The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones."
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"He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk."
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"I don't like guys who are conventional. I'm an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a guy who keeps my on my toes."
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"When I stub my toe it's like I pressed a button that plays all the curse words I know."
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"Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes."
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"It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes."
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"Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done."
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"I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted."
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"May an elephant caress you with his toes"
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"A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes."
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"If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk."
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"Watch out for love (unless it is true, and every part of you says yes including the toes), it will wrap you up like a mummy, and your scream won't be heard and none of your running will run."
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"Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes."
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"How can you know God if you don't know your big toe?"
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"Intentions are the triggers for transformation in the body. If you want to wiggle your toes, you do it through intention."
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"I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice."
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"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top."
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"The toes of our ratty black sneakers touched."
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"Those who stand on their toes are not steady."
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"What do you like to do?” She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. “Needlework.” “Very restful, isn’t it?” “Well,” said Arya, “not the way I do it."
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"I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear."
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